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  • I use Fable for writing code and some planning. I use GPT for planning/roadmaps and code review, it checks Fable. I use Gemini for stray conversations. Gemini has a better conversational style than GPT, less robotic; it hallucinates more unfortunately, it has plainly fallen quite a bit behind, but it's still highly useful to converse with, research with, etc. And it spares me wasting usage of GPT or Fable. I use Gemini for the 'everything else' category, basically. Gemini never goes anywhere near anything serious.

    Fable & Claude Opus 4.x or 5 are terrible to talk to about anything. I gave up on that entirely and just use Anthropic's models for work.

    Any less serious technical work I'll use GPT for, as the usage limits are quite fantastic.

    by adventured
  • GPT gets the most out there, but creates interesting nuance that turn an idea into a more creative exercise. Claude is like a more grounded GPT but may miss the nuance. Gemini is my last pick, but does better than the rest for making something clear and understandable. It gets to be exhausting parsing through Claude outputs and breaking it down into something more easily understandable. One way I use to improve this is to ask the LLM to pull upstream ideas from prior work on the topics. This makes me feel better about the possibility of hallucination, gives me alternate places to look, but the model still may pull things out of context or fall over on the interpretation.

    Given all that, I can definitely see how Gemini would be preferred. And good for Google, because I would rather my offering be the top choice for the most people rather than better serving a small subset of users.

    by gexla
  • Gemini is bad at coding, but good at writing. More human like
    by ShawWang
  • Anything is better than the current crop of Claudes, its prose has become painful.
    by gherkinnn
  • In my experience, Gemini excels at explaining new concepts clearly and intuitively. Much more so than other models.
    by John7878781
  • > How to use Gemini for a college essay

    Given that this is increasingly the go-to for a college degree, college needs to rethink its cirricula and place in the world. Or at least get rid of the essay.

    Lest it become a place where student and teacher ais go to play pay-to-win social deduction video games.

    by avaer
  • Author, that doesn’t mean you need to get Gemini to write your article.
    by demibabs
  • The spread isn't as large as I thought from the headline. It's closer to a toss-up than I would have expected.

    The length of the response is a huge factor:

    > Students tended to prefer longer responses. The selected answer was 37% longer on average than the alternatives. The longest response won 47.7% of decisive writing comparisons. The shortest still won 25.0%.

    So the score is partially a proxy for longest responses.

    Makes me wonder how much the reviewers actually read the text. Were lazy evaluators picking the text that looked the longest or most structured without reading it all?

    by Aurornis

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